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NASA will send two missions to Venus for the first time in over 30 years

The agency has picked two new robotic missions to explore the hot hell-world of Venus, Earth’s neighbor and the second planet from the Sun, administrator Bill Nelson announced on Wednesday. The two missions, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, were among four competing proposals under the latest round of NASA’s Discovery Program, which manages smaller planetary exploration missions… Read more

NFTs, explained

There’s nothing like an explosion of blockchain news to leave you thinking, “Um… what’s going on here?” That’s the feeling I’ve experienced while reading about Grimes getting millions of dollars for NFTs or about Nyan Cat being sold as one. You might be wondering: what is an NFT, anyhow? After literal hours of reading, I… Read more

Astronaut Payette: Canada's Viceroy must abdicate

Ex-astronaut Julie Payette is forced to abdicate as Governor General of Canada. Her leadership style has become the scientist’s undoing. It is the first time in the history of the world’s largest monarchy that a governor-general has to resign. Until a successor is appointed, Richard Wagner takes over the official business. The grandson of a… Read more

The trade fair industry hopes for the recovery of classic business in 2021

When Markus Geisenberger and Martin Buhl-Wagner talk about 2021, there is a lot of talk about confidence. You are the managing director of Leipziger Messe and after the disastrous Corona year 2020 you want to go back to conventional trade fairs with personal meetings. “We humans are social beings. We want to experience ourselves personally… Read more

What Twitter Fleets signals about the future of the company

I. In March 2017, I drove down to the Instagram offices in Menlo Park to meet with founder Kevin Systrom. The subject of the meeting had not been disclosed to me in advance, and when we sat down in a conference room, Systrom had a surprise for me: his team had cloned Snapchat’s popular stories… Read more

Aviation industry wants further billions from the federal government

Immediately before the planned air traffic summit of the federal government, the industry demanded further billions in aid from the federal government. After the airlines, the airports and the federally owned German air traffic control would now have to be refurbished with taxpayers’ money, demand representatives of industry associations who are taking part in the… Read more

Schaeffler Board of Management: Electric cars will increase CO2 emissions by 2030

The increasing spread of electric cars will increase CO 2 emissions for the first time in these ten years. This is assumed by Uwe Wagner, Chief Research Officer at the automotive supplier Schaeffler. Don’t miss any news! With our daily newsletter you will receive every morning all the news from heise online of the past… Read more

Toilet and oxygen failure on the ISS: “Everyone is safe”

On the International Space Station (ISS), two new breakdowns caused the oxygen supply and the toilet in the Russian segment of the Outpost of Mankind to fail. The cosmonaut Anatoly Iwanischin informed the flight control center near Moscow about the new incidents. There had been several problems with the sanitary facilities and the oxygen supply…. Read more